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[line] Friday Aug 16th, 1867 [line]
Read papers & cut out items all day.  Seven bidarras come down from Unalaklut.  Ivan Matfay and other Ulukuk Indians in one, Alluianuk and some Okeeogemut Indians in another.  Smith and Stepanoff get back.  Smith brings me some snipe unfit for anything except alcoholic specimens.  Libbys party all gone.

[line] Saturday 17 [line]
Finish looking over papers get Schuyler to do some copying for me.  Write on Youkon notes in P.M.  Stephanoffs child christened in P.M.  Russians all drunk.

[line] Sunday 18 [line]
Go down in the village and get some Anadon shells from Pastotic.  They are also found at Takitesky.  A small kind the Indians say is formed about here.  I shall look for them.  Afternoon about three oclock 

Transcription Notes:
a bidarra is a wooden-framed canoe lashed with animal skins.